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Association of a genetic variant in the apolipoprotein A5 gene with the metabolic syndrome in Chinese.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Feb 2011
Ong Kwok Leung, Jiang Chao Qiang, Liu Bin, Jin Ya Li, Tso Annette W K, Tam Sidney, Wong Ka Sing, Tomlinson Brian, Cheung Bernard M Y, Lin Jie Ming, Yue Xiao Jun, Lam Karen S L, Lam Tai Hing, Thomas Graham Neil
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the apolipoprotein A5 gene (APOA5) are associated with hypertriglyceridaemia in our population. We studied the associations of SNPs in APOA5 with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in the Hong Kong and Guangzhou Chinese. METHODS: We genotyped five tagging SNPs in 1330 unrelated subjects from the Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence Study cohort with...
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